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Goans threatened by industrial toxic emissions
Belasao
(Goa): Industrial toxic emissions are posing a major threat to Goans.
Zuari Industries Limited, is one such factory that is posing an ecological
threat. Located about 25 km from Panjim on the Panjim-Vasco route, this
compnay has been under the scanner of officials of the pollution department.
Villagers in Belasao have complained that toxins released from the factories
flow into the sea, which results in the death of marine life. "I do not
think that any action has been taken against it. It depends whom they
catch. But we have to face this everyday. Once in a month, the fish dies
because of pollution," complained Gois, a resident. "They have passed
a pipeline through the sea. Even that affects the fishermen and when they
cast their nets, they get up struck with the pipeline. If we go to them
with complaints, they do not give us anything, not even compensation for
any loss of the nets," said Caji Rodrigues, another resident. The State
Pollution Control Board denies that there is any pollution now. They say
that they have been attending to complaints of arsenic leakage regularly.
There is no arsenic coming and going into the stream. There is no pollution
in my opinion," said Dr. L.U. Joshi, the Chairman of the Goa State Pollution
Control Board.
-June 17, 2006
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